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Terrible scenes had followed the mother's tears, the father's thunders, the general family wail and supplication, sisters trembling for their prospects, brothers anticipating the sneers of club-land. What! exchange Prince Janko for a thief!
He didn't come that night or the next day either, and the Golden Maiden grew sad and quiet, the Magic Grape-Vine no longer poured out its precious wine every hour, the Golden Apple-Tree stopped putting forth its buds and blossoms and golden fruit, and the Golden Horse languished and drooped its lovely head. "Everything goes wrong when Janko isn't here!" the farmer said. "Where can he be?"
'Never, said Lasar, 'shall it be said that a Bulgarian was wanting to his guest, He seized a hatchet, and Janko was slaughtered as a lamb. Ah, who can describe the supper of the stranger! "Lasar fell into a deep sleep, and at midnight he heard the stranger cry aloud, 'Arise, Lasar, for I am the Lord thy God; the hospitality of Bulgaria is untarnished.
And, indeed, no one had the courage to follow him but one man, and that man was the kopanitschar. "Janko had looked for him all night long in order to kill him, but he had remained concealed in a hayrick till midday. At midday, he crept out of his hiding-place and went to look for Janko. He had no other weapon but a long, two-pronged wooden fork, which they use in those parts to toss hay.
Half fascinated, half panting for free air, but wholly flattered and enamoured, she wrote at once to break off with Janko and surrender to her Satanic Ferdinand. "Yes, friend Satan, the child wills! A drop of your diabolical blood has passed into her veins. I am yours for life. But first try reasonable means.
Thy son Janko is restored to life, and thy stores are filled. "Long lived the rich Lasar, the fair Luibitza, and the curly-haired Janko." Milutinovich, in his address to the youthful surgeon, compares his transcendent generosity to the sacrifice made by Lasar in the wild and distasteful legend I have here given.
He felt that this heroic resistance had very considerably impaired his prestige in the opinion of the people. This blot upon his escutcheon must be wiped off. The third robber chieftain, Janko, still remained. He should serve to restore the honor of the vihodar. The old vihodar proposed to do great things with him.
Everyone began to applaud the delinquent and cry: "Vivat Janko," while they pelted the headsman's assistants with stinking eggs and rotten apples.
Janko paid the farmers for the damage his brothers had done them and took his brothers home with him. You can imagine the old farmer's happiness at seeing all three of his sons after a whole year's absence. It was even greater than his delight at getting back his Magic Grape-Vine. But that doesn't mean that he wasn't delighted to have back the Grape-Vine.
Pirka greeted her with strangely sounding words, not one of which Michal understood, and the kopanitschar's wife answered in the same fashion. "Have you offered up a witch's prayer, and if so, for what have you prayed?" "I have prayed that the devil may take the old vihodar." "He has got him already. Janko bit him in the neck, and immediately he was a dead man."
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